Which is more important, the individual or the clan? After returning to the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhao Wuxian felt the weight of clan responsibility, people in this era may not be patriotic, but no one loves their family.

The heads of the Ji and Meng clans were not very talented, but their choice made Zhao Wuxian sigh. In order to protect Ji's family, Ji Sunsi resolutely died; In order not to become a sinner of the Meng family's surrender to Qi, Meng Sun He Ji went to Qi himself, let his younger brother inherit the family business, and continue the rule of the Meng family.

The rest of the scholars, it can be said that they are corrupt, it can be said that they are incorruptible, it can be said that they are meat eaters, but no matter which family they are, they are all working hard to maintain the continuation of their clan, and many of them are quite supported by the people.

Wuxian realized from this that the old nobles of the Lu State had not withered and died, and it would take time to eliminate them, so while implementing the county system, he also retained the capitals of the Ji family, the Meng family, and the Dongdi doctors.

He planned to use the revamped "shogunate" to strengthen himself and weaken the feudal clans.

The shogunate is not a Japanese invention, but a word borrowed from China, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the ministers and generals of the countries had the power to open the palace, and Li Mu attacked the Huns, relying on the Hakka retainers under the shogunate to give advice.

However, Zhao Wuxian's shogunate was different, he just borrowed this system and turned the co-rule of the three secretaries of the Lu State into the dictatorship of the shogun. Scholars of very low status in the aristocratic era were to be conscripted as private ministers of the shogunate, either Confucian disciples from poor backgrounds such as Ran Qiu and Gong Xihua, or low-ranking scholars such as Kan Zhi.

These scholars, like the old-timer Cao Di, despised Dr. Qing's sluggish life, and they advocated utilitarianism and yearned for benevolence and righteousness. There is a sense of social responsibility that "the prosperity of the country is the responsibility of the husband". I want to create the value of life through joining the company.

In front of the continuous mass production of talents in various counties, before the military landlords gain a firm foothold at the grassroots level of Lu State. In the long run, they will form the spirit of scholars in the middle and lower strata of society, while the doctors will be slowly deprived of the right to participate in state affairs, and their circle will become smaller and smaller, and their prestige will become lower and lower.

"The gravediggers of the old nobles of the Lu State and even the entire Kyushu princes are not me, but them, these vibrant ......" Zhao Wuxian is just a promoter of the historical process. He wants to make the "gentleman expensive, the king is not expensive!" The Warring States morale came ahead of schedule.

Just when Zhao Wuxian was looking forward to the foreseeable future, the door of the hall was gently pushed open.

It is now the end of February in the summer calendar, the spring breeze is slow, the swallow finch is returning to its nest, and the weather is warm, but the head of the Zhao shogunate is coming to the door with a cold face.

Zhang Mengtan had already shed his fur shoulders, and stood at the door wearing a plain thick cloth deep coat.

"The minister is rude. But the minister has one thing, so he has to ask the lord in person! ”

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Zhang Mengtan asked the guards to close the door, took off his shoes and walked up to the hall, bowing when he reached a distance of ten steps. He straightened up again and asked Zhao Wuxian an extremely serious question.

"After the establishment of the shogunate, the lord ruled over the whole of the country. But the subordinate has a sentence that he has to ask, and the matter is up to now. Does the monarch want to stay in Lu as the secretary of the world? Or do you want to go back to the Jin Kingdom to inherit the Zhao family's temple? ”

Zhang Mengtan had to be serious and look at the overall situation. It is his task for the Lord to see clearly the crisis ahead and to propose his own strategy. He suddenly realized that Zhao Wuxian's forces had come to this day and had reached a crossroads, with Guijin on the left and Liulu on the right, and there was an irreconcilable contradiction between the two.

If you are bent on returning to Jin, then you have to mobilize the Lu State to the maximum, and constantly stimulate the enterprising spirit of the Lu people through military merits, and when the integration is completed, when you can make up the three armies to expedition hundreds of miles away, it will be the day when Zhao Wuxian returns to Jin to crusade against Fan and Zhongxing!

If you are ready to stay in the Lu State and keep this hard-laid foundation to pass on to your descendants, you must slowly figure it out, be gentle with the nobles, and try to keep your head in obscurity for ten years to avoid becoming a victim of the Qi and Jin wars.

Zhao Wuxian put down the file in his hand, raised his head to meet Zhang Mengtan's gaze, and also took his question.

"Meng Tan, haven't you and I been together for a long time?"

Zhang Mengtan was stunned: "It seems to have been a long time." ”

In the small attic of Shangqiu in Song Kingdom, the two chatted so happily, and the situation of the princes seemed to be in the palm of their hands. But after that, they plunged headlong into reality, how to survive in the country of Lu, how to occupy the dove's nest, this is their purpose and ambition.

It's just that after climbing to the top of the mountain, people always realize that there are higher peaks waiting to be climbed.

"Then you and I will talk about it today, not as a monarch and minister, but as a friend." Wuxian invited him to sit down and asked, "Meng Tan thinks that you and I have come to this point, even if it is enough?" ”

"Naturally, it's not enough."

If you are an ordinary person, you may think that the secretary who controls the state politics is the best of the people, but Zhang Mengtan doesn't think so.

The ruling of a medium-sized state is far worse than the end point he envisioned for Zhao Wuxian and the Zhao clan!

"Helping Jun become the secretary of a great country, and then Zuojun is like Zhao Xuanzi to prosper the Jin State and hegemon, this is my pursuit!"

He has always been a soft and kind person, but when it comes to ambition, he is strong-willed. Four years ago, he gave up the opportunity to become a career in China, and resolutely went to the Song Kingdom to seek refuge with an exiled son who had no hope in life, this choice was ridiculed by countless people, but now those people are speechless. That gamble paid off, but it wasn't enough, and people always found out that they could go further after reaching the finish line.

"Good, that's what I'm after!" Zhao Wuxian made a loud noise.

"Self-cultivation, family harmony, governing the country, and leveling the world! Now I have been able to establish a family and rule a country of a thousand times. But it is still far from the prosperity of the hegemony, and the world is still far away...... If you want to prosper hegemonically, it is very difficult to do it in a small place like Lu State, after all, it has been poor and weak for hundreds of years. The north is limited to Qi, and the south is limited to Wu, so you can only call yourself lonely and widowed in the small country of Sishang, what does this mean? For me, only the Jin Kingdom, only the Jin Kingdom, which has strong folk customs and dangers and horses, is the place where it can compete for hegemony in the world. ”

Hundreds of miles of mountains and rivers in the country of Lu still can't contain Zhao Wuxian's ambition to be infinitely amplified by what later generations have seen. That's right, only the Jin Kingdom is the stage that swept the world. Not only the situation of the property and the mountains and rivers, but also the fact that he devoured countless lands and accumulated a hundred years of wealth. It has cultivated a group of scholars who take Xingba as their own responsibility, and have sufficient foundation and foundation. If he can inherit Jin's inheritance completely, Zhao Wuxian can struggle for 20 years less!

Even if he was divided into three by Wei Zhao Han. It can also be called Qi, Qin, Chu and other powerful countries to look sideways, if they don't distinguish, what should they do?

What's more, there is another reason why Zhao Wuxian is in a hurry to return to Jin is that he can't be known to outsiders.

A woman married at twenty, Ji Huan, in history, Zhao Jianzi married her to Daiguo, it should be a matter of two or three years, right?

……

Listening to Zhao Wuxian's ambition, Zhang Mengtan breathed a sigh of relief.

As a Jin person. To the west of Taihang is where the temple is located, and where the tomb is located, these ministers naturally want to go back, and Zhao Wuxian can live in peace without forgetting danger, wealth without forgetting his roots, which makes him very pleased.

But now that is the case, they are faced with a choice.

"If one day the monarch wants to return, if the monarch wants to inherit Zhao Qing's position after a hundred years, one minister cannot be loyal to two monarchs at the same time. One secretary can't rule the two countries at the same time, how will Lu deal with it at that time? ”

This is the Spring and Autumn Period and not the Warring States Period, just like a woman cannot marry a second husband at the same time, the object of allegiance to the minister is also limited to death. Even to the Warring States. The so-called Su Qinpei Six Kingdoms is actually just a vice minister in charge of diplomacy, and the seven heroes will play a game of reversal at most.

But Zhao Wuxian has already thought of a solution to stealing beams and changing pillars. He pointed to a letter with Zhao Ying and said, "Actually, my father also asked me about your question. Do you know what I said in my letter? ”

Without waiting for Zhang Mengtan to speak, he continued: "I promised my father. If my father can become Shangqing, as long as my father and son conspire to directly merge the five counties of Xilu into the Jin Kingdom, it will not be difficult! ”

"This ......" Zhang Mengtan bit his lip, and then nodded helplessly: "It's really not difficult." ”

The Marquis of Jin should be very happy, Marquis Lu is now a puppet, his opinion is invalid, who can stop the determination of the two governments of Jin and Lu to work together to promote?

If Lu Hou, Meng, and Ji heard this, they would probably be shocked. And Liu Xia Ji, and Kong Qiu, if they knew about Zhao Wuxian's plan, they would probably jump to their feet in anger and scold him for his wolf ambition.

In this era, it was common for a doctor from a certain country to suddenly take the city to a neighboring country, and the Liqiu Wu clan did it, and several doctors from the east also came from Ju. But the five counties of Lu State, one-third of the territory, and more than 300,000 people, say that they will be cut, and it is still the ruling government taking the lead in betraying the country, which has never happened in ancient times! The moral gentlemen of the Lu State must hate to eat Zhao Wuxian's meat raw.

"What about the rest of the country? Qufu and Dongdi, how does the lord plan to deal with them? ”

Zhang Mengtan didn't stupidly ask why the entire Lu State was not merged into the Jin State, it was simply impossible, at least not within this generation. Although the Jin State destroyed a lot of Sheji in the country with the same surname, how could the Lu State, which was the seal of the Zhou Gong and the country of a thousand times, be swallowed? Not to mention that the Lu people are not convinced, the Meng clan would rather take refuge in the Qi country, and the Ji clan will also make noise among the doctors in the east, I am afraid that it will attract a siege from all over the world at that time......

Qin, Chu, Qi, and even the state of Wu, which is bent on going north and regards the south of Mount Tai as its sphere of influence, the four great powers and their vassals come to the Nine Kingdoms to attack Jin, although the Jin State is strong, it can't bear it...... What's more, there is still the problem of the separation of the six kings internally, and I don't know when it will be resolved.

Wuxian but confident: "This is the reason why I set up the shogunate, a few years, or more than ten years later, I should be the secretary of Jin, but the Zhao shogunate of the Lu State will continue......"

"What does the lord mean...... Let Zhao's brother be the ruler of the Lu State? "Shiqing Shilu of the State of Lu has not been abolished, so the position of General Zhao can naturally be inherited by blood relatives. But Zhang Mengtan looked embarrassed, if this was the case, he did not approve of it.

"Brother?" Shirtless was stunned, yes, he still has a brother.

If it weren't for others mentioning it, he probably wouldn't have remembered that the three uncles of the Zhao family were his cheap brothers, and they had a general relationship with him, so the honest Bolu was not bad. But for no reason, why should he be cheaper when he is so easy to build? Zhao Wuxian is not the indecisive Zhao Xiangzi in history, he put a bunch of sons and did not pass them on, but passed them on to Bolu's grandson, and as a result, Zhang Mengtan's perfect start for Zhao Guo turned into a bad hand......

Past experience, if not forgotten, is a guide for the future.; Don't forget the future, but also the teacher of the past! That Zhao Xiangzi did something wrong and wrong, leave it all to him to make up for it!

He replied, "Naturally, not brothers, but my heirs......"

"Heir?" The amount of information in today's conversation with Zhao Wuxian was a bit large, and Zhang Mengtan didn't react for a while.

"There's something I haven't told Meng Tan yet." Zhao Wuxian smiled a little smugly.

"My concubine Bo Mi is already three months pregnant, and the doctor Bian Que said that it is ...... to give birth to a boy."

PS: What, I sent today's chapter by mistake yesterday, so I only have this chapter today, and I've been in the car all day, and I can't write it (to be continued.) )